Re: Progress bar colours

[Yann LEYDIER <yann leydier info>]

Hi !

Depending on your Gtk theme, progress bars can be animated pixbufs, so I 
doubt you can change the color programmatically.

If I had to do this, I would create a custom widget containing a drawing 
area…

yann

On 27/08/11 13:28, Thomas Harty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use a progress bar to display temperatures and it'd be very
> useful to be able to make bar change colour to indicate any problems.
> I've done some reading and the best references (e.g.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gtk-list gnome org/msg13767.html and
> http://markmail.org/message/zirxleljlithtiel) I could find suggest that
> it should be possible to change the colour of the bar using
> override_background_color with the state flag PRELIGHT and to change the
> color of the trough using override_background_color with the state flag
> NORMAL. However, when I do this, I find that the
> override_background_color with prelight does nothing and with the normal
> flag, it changes the colour of both the slider and the trough.
>
> Some of the comments I've seen make it seem as thought this should be
> done using style files, but I couldn't find anything explaining how.
>
> Any light that anyone could throw on this would be appreciated.
>
> Tom
>
>
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